Salt Lake Tribune · Oct 1, 2017
How a new Mormon apostle is chosen
(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) President Henry Eyring, first counselor to the First Presidency, fourth from right,, and President Dieter Uchtdorf, second counselor to the First Presidency, just behind, shake hands with the members of Qurom of the Twelve Apostles at concusion of the Sunday morning session of the LDS Church’s 187th Semiannual General Conference in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 1. Mormon apostle Robert D. Hales’ death Sunday leaves an opening in high-level LDS Church leadership that must be filled.
After all, it’s implicit in the name of the body in which the 85-year-old Hales served: the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. His passing leaves only 11 in that elite group.